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In article <1992Nov8.054645.1589@news2.cis.umn.edu> alla0008@student.tc.umn.edu () writes:
>In article <BxDLw7.DHH@ibmpcug.co.uk> gtoal@ibmpcug.co.uk (Graham Toal) writes:
>>Oh - I should have said this earlier; I only recently discovered that Acorn
>>ad released Edward's excellent Pascal to the world, non-commercially.

>>*FULL MARKS* to acorn for an excellent decision.  It really was the
>>right thing to do given that you had good reasons not to market it.

Agreed.

>>I was wondering though - it des *not* seem to have been well publicised.
>>Why don't you arrange with one of the magazines (BAU?) to publish it
>>as a cover disk?  That would be a major coup for a magazine and excellent
>>publicity for Acorn.

They have - sort of!  The Desktop Pascal compiler has been released
by Archive magazine through Norwich Computer services 'Careware' disks
(i.e. PD with a small charity element).  The disk {Careware 17 if memory
serves) is L5.00 from NCS.

>This is an excellent idea - but it might need to have quite a lot of other
>bits and pieces included for it to be useful to many people (ie, those who
>don't already have Desktop C). It would need to have the FrontEnd module,
>etc, and the linker, to start with, and maybe the 'C' libraries too. Now,
>*that*, as a fully-functional Pascal setup, would be an amazing
>non-commercial release! Probably rather too much for Acorn to contemplate
>though... I guess the libraries account for most of the cost of the C
>package. I just can't help feeling there might be a lot of disappointed
>people when they realise they have this Pascal compiler but can't use it
>without buying Desktop C or Assembler. Not Acorn's fault, but you can see
>how it might rebound publicity-wise. Still a nice idea, well worth
>thinking about. 

It is (virtually) a pre-requiste that you already have Desktop C in order
to be able to run the Desktop Pascal compiler - for the reasons stated
above.

Having had the oppurtunity to play with it, it seems OK.  The debugger
(DDT) has no direct support for Pascal-like syntax, but you still have
symbolic debugging with a 'C' like syntax.

See recent articles in Archive magazine - Languages' column - for more
details.

>Graham						allan@mnhep8.hep.umn.edu

Hope this is of interest.

Dave Kennard.

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